Hi all,
do we have a timeline and launch plan for Certified Open?
There are a couple of upcoming opportunities, e.g. the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) [1,2], where promotion of CO would seem promising, but we should have something to promote.
I'm really getting quite concerned about cumulative delays here and wonder where is the sticking point, and how to proceed, because at the moment I do not know how to move forward this project.
Regards, Georg
[1] http://www.intgovforum.org [2] http://www.igfbrazil2007.br
Georg C. F. Greve wrote:
do we have a timeline and launch plan for Certified Open?
I agree that we need to have a concrete time line and launch plan.
As I understand it, the original plan was for a Brussel's launch. However, before we can move forward we need to have: - functioning website - test phase - agreements with partners
Shane
I'm also concerned that we keep slipping. Having announced our intentions at the Ministerial conf on friday in Lisbon ("in the coming weeks"!!!!). I see it slightly differently only in whats outstanding. what makes a slight difference is that since we are now announcing the formal 3 month trial, that gives us a little more time to finalise some (but not all) of the detail. I think we have to have for 'launch' 1. A working website - from which companies can find info and make applications. 2. The dynamic application process - since weneed to be trialling this as much as the questions/scoring. 3. All the docn complete. 4. The core,legal, and governance in place 5. Sign Up plan - pre and post launch 6. Launch plan inc sufficient quotes of support.
Taking each in turn. 1 Website - needs refreshing, particularly with words/descriptions. Sugggest GT and SC review and conf call with Rod to update. First call by end this week, complete by 5 Oct? 2. Application Process. Rod is in Italy today/tomorrow with Reflab ( hopefully to resolve the issues/communication gaps) so I hope he will be able to have a definite completion date in which we have confidence in. Rod to report back asap. 3.The princ of Op still needs updating Shane/bob and Rod have updated the T+Cs but we need to update the words, and include a section describing trial prcoess inc the MOU drafted by Georg. 4. Legal/Governance. On legal the two areas I am aware of outstanding is bank account (Bob - status?), and liability Insurance. On latter I know Bob needs final copy of Op Principles (above). On Governance I suggest one outstanding item is to establish the CO Council , and at least have first names agreed. can we dust off the previous list of suggested names and review who still appropriate, and prioritise. 5. Sign Ups. As soon as we have above we should start pre announcing, both to sign up local/national partners, first user, suppliers and gain enough quotes for a critical mass. for the launch. we then need a longer list of target contacts and programme who will approach. 6. Launch Plan. When, where, how , who to? The original plan was Brussels but time has moved on and we have made a number of early announcements. we now need to go hard.To me it looks like we should target w/b 22nd or 29th October? Do we need a press launch ( as in press conference ), do we do a 'paper' launch with target journalists/interviews, or can we use an existing event? Georg suggested the IGF ( in Rio?). My personal thoughts but comments are we go for a paper lauunch, backed up by a small number of target interviews, backed up events like Rio. One of these could be a Briefing in Brussels the evening of 7th November ( IDABC Pegsco meeting is on the 8th). Thoughts? Suggest we have a conf call to discuss and agree. when is good for everyone? Rgds G
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Good evening board
I notice Sachiko and JW from Chelgate are in CC. Is Chelgate going to help manage the launch?
Graham Taylor wrote:
I see it slightly differently only in whats outstanding. what makes a slight difference is that since we are now announcing the formal 3 month trial, that gives us a little more time to finalise some (but not all) of the detail. I think we have to have for 'launch'
- A working website - from which companies can find info and make
applications. 2. The dynamic application process - since weneed to be trialling this as much as the questions/scoring. 3. All the docn complete. 4. The core,legal, and governance in place 5. Sign Up plan - pre and post launch 6. Launch plan inc sufficient quotes of support.
Sounds reasonable.
Taking each in turn. 1 Website - needs refreshing, particularly with words/descriptions. Sugggest GT and SC review and conf call with Rod to update. First call by end this week, complete by 5 Oct?
Yes. It can be done. GT and SC will need to brainstorm a little to work out what we need to do. We can cover this in the conference call which I assume will happen this week (see end of email).
- Application Process. Rod is in Italy today/tomorrow with Reflab (
hopefully to resolve the issues/communication gaps) so I hope he will be able to have a definite completion date in which we have confidence in. Rod to report back asap.
Excellent. We do need a time-scale on this. This is critical.
3.The princ of Op still needs updating Shane/bob and Rod have updated the T+Cs but we need to update the words, and include a section describing trial prcoess inc the MOU drafted by Georg.
The most current Principles of Operation (PoO hereafter) are attached to this email.
Graham, can you clarify: 1) What words do we need to update? In PoO or in the T+C? Bit confused. 2) Do you want the description of trail processes with MoU from Georg to go into PoO?
- Legal/Governance. On legal the two areas I am aware of outstanding is
bank account (Bob - status?), and liability Insurance. On latter I know Bob needs final copy of Op Principles (above). On Governance I suggest one outstanding item is to establish the CO Council , and at least have first names agreed. can we dust off the previous list of suggested names and review who still appropriate, and prioritise.
OK, sounds like we need to get the PoO ready ASAP. Graham, I can work with you to get a deliverable on this. Alternatively, if you delegate to Bob, then Bob and I can get it done. We should have this by 5th October as well.
- Sign Ups. As soon as we have above we should start pre announcing,
both to sign up local/national partners, first user, suppliers and gain enough quotes for a critical mass. for the launch. we then need a longer list of target contacts and programme who will approach.
OK.
- Launch Plan. When, where, how , who to? The original plan was
Brussels but time has moved on and we have made a number of early announcements. we now need to go hard.To me it looks like we should target w/b 22nd or 29th October? Do we need a press launch ( as in press conference ), do we do a 'paper' launch with target journalists/interviews, or can we use an existing event? Georg suggested the IGF ( in Rio?). My personal thoughts but comments are we go for a paper lauunch, backed up by a small number of target interviews, backed up events like Rio. One of these could be a Briefing in Brussels the evening of 7th November ( IDABC Pegsco meeting is on the 8th). Thoughts?
Paper launch supplemented with some briefings in London and Brussels sounds like the minimal we should do. Perhaps Sachiko and her colleague from Chelgate could lend some thoughts regarding this?
In essence I agree fully with Graham's assertion earlier in the email that we need to push this as hard as possible because we've had a number of pre-announcements.
Proviso: we need to have the trail period mapped and clear, to ensure that if there are mistakes in the framework they will not undermine the credibility of the initiative itself.
Suggest we have a conf call to discuss and agree. when is good for everyone?
I have availability this week as I am in the office. Thursday is a bit full until after 14:00.
Shane
comments inserted below Rgds G ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Martin Coughlan" coughlan@fsfeurope.org To: "Graham Taylor" graham@openforumeurope.org Cc: coughlan@fsfeurope.org; board@certifiedopen.com; "Rod Norman" rod@openforumeurope.org; "Sachiko Muto" sachiko.muto@openforumeurope.org; jw@chelgate.com Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 6:22 PM Subject: Re: Do we have a timeline and launch plan?
Good evening board
I notice Sachiko and JW from Chelgate are in CC. Is Chelgate going to help manage the launch?
GT - certianly hope so1 Chelgate are retained by OFE for such work.
Graham Taylor wrote:
I see it slightly differently only in whats outstanding. what makes a slight difference is that since we are now announcing the formal 3 month trial, that gives us a little more time to finalise some (but not all) of the detail. I think we have to have for 'launch'
- A working website - from which companies can find info and make
applications. 2. The dynamic application process - since weneed to be trialling this as much as the questions/scoring. 3. All the docn complete. 4. The core,legal, and governance in place 5. Sign Up plan - pre and post launch 6. Launch plan inc sufficient quotes of support.
Sounds reasonable.
Taking each in turn. 1 Website - needs refreshing, particularly with words/descriptions. Sugggest GT and SC review and conf call with Rod to update. First call by end this week, complete by 5 Oct?
Yes. It can be done. GT and SC will need to brainstorm a little to work out what we need to do. We can cover this in the conference call which I assume will happen this week (see end of email).
Gt agree. I'm in France from wed pm so how about Thursday or Friday pms?
- Application Process. Rod is in Italy today/tomorrow with Reflab (
hopefully to resolve the issues/communication gaps) so I hope he will be able to have a definite completion date in which we have confidence in. Rod to report back asap.
Excellent. We do need a time-scale on this. This is critical.
3.The princ of Op still needs updating Shane/bob and Rod have updated the T+Cs but we need to update the words, and include a section describing trial prcoess inc the MOU drafted by Georg.
The most current Principles of Operation (PoO hereafter) are attached to this email.
Graham, can you clarify:
- What words do we need to update? In PoO or in the T+C? Bit confused.
- Do you want the description of trail processes with MoU from Georg to
go into PoO?
Both for the PofO. The T+Cs are in the Pof O already.
- Legal/Governance. On legal the two areas I am aware of outstanding is
bank account (Bob - status?), and liability Insurance. On latter I know Bob needs final copy of Op Principles (above). On Governance I suggest one outstanding item is to establish the CO Council , and at least have first names agreed. can we dust off the previous list of suggested names and review who still appropriate, and prioritise.
OK, sounds like we need to get the PoO ready ASAP. Graham, I can work with you to get a deliverable on this. Alternatively, if you delegate to Bob, then Bob and I can get it done. We should have this by 5th October as well.
- Sign Ups. As soon as we have above we should start pre announcing,
both to sign up local/national partners, first user, suppliers and gain enough quotes for a critical mass. for the launch. we then need a longer list of target contacts and programme who will approach.
OK.
- Launch Plan. When, where, how , who to? The original plan was
Brussels but time has moved on and we have made a number of early announcements. we now need to go hard.To me it looks like we should target w/b 22nd or 29th October? Do we need a press launch ( as in press conference ), do we do a 'paper' launch with target journalists/interviews, or can we use an existing event? Georg suggested the IGF ( in Rio?). My personal thoughts but comments are we go for a paper lauunch, backed up by a small number of target interviews, backed up events like Rio. One of these could be a Briefing in Brussels the evening of 7th November ( IDABC Pegsco meeting is on the 8th). Thoughts?
Paper launch supplemented with some briefings in London and Brussels sounds like the minimal we should do. Perhaps Sachiko and her colleague from Chelgate could lend some thoughts regarding this?
In essence I agree fully with Graham's assertion earlier in the email that we need to push this as hard as possible because we've had a number of pre-announcements.
Proviso: we need to have the trail period mapped and clear, to ensure that if there are mistakes in the framework they will not undermine the credibility of the initiative itself.
Suggest we have a conf call to discuss and agree. when is good for everyone?
I have availability this week as I am in the office. Thursday is a bit full until after 14:00.
Gt Could do Turs pm for call between shane and myself and main call with all friday pm??
Shane
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Graham, Board, Sachiko, JW, Rod
Graham Taylor wrote:
I notice Sachiko and JW from Chelgate are in CC. Is Chelgate going to help manage the launch?
GT - certianly hope so1 Chelgate are retained by OFE for such work.
Right. Great.
Graham, can you clarify:
- What words do we need to update? In PoO or in the T+C? Bit confused.
- Do you want the description of trail processes with MoU from Georg to
go into PoO?
Both for the PofO. The T+Cs are in the PofO already.
I was dropped on my head as a child. It explains a lot of things.
OK, so we need to update the PofO. No problem.
Gt Could do Turs pm for call between shane and myself and main call with all friday pm??
Thurs PM for a call between GT and SC sounds good. Friday call with all sounds good too.
Graham, any time after 14:00 on Thursday is good for me. If you pick a slot I'll mark it in the schedule.
Shane
I'm a time-line kind of guy. Suggestions below:
October 5th - Principles of Operation completed October XX - Website completed (Rod? Date.) October XX - Application process completed (Rod, Bob? Date.) October 22nd - Formal launch of trial October 31st - LinuxWorld NL (Shane speaking..promotion?) November 3rd - elce2007 (Shane speaking..promotion?) November 7th - Briefing in Brussels (who attends?) November 8th - IDABC Pegsco meeting promotion (who attends?) November 12th - IGF Promotion? (who attends?) January 22nd - Full launch of all services
Website and application process dates and clarification needed ASAP. Map of people to contact for trial needed ASAP. Delegation of duties for October 22nd proposed launch needed ASAP.
In short, we won't be bored.
Regards
Shane
Shane
This is a good framework. Regarding CO website we need to decide how we want to project CO, style to be used and develop content to support the product database. Perhaps we could discuss during conference call.
Regards
Bob
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:53 +0200, Shane Martin Coughlan wrote:
I'm a time-line kind of guy. Suggestions below:
October 5th - Principles of Operation completed October XX - Website completed (Rod? Date.) October XX - Application process completed (Rod, Bob? Date.) October 22nd - Formal launch of trial October 31st - LinuxWorld NL (Shane speaking..promotion?) November 3rd - elce2007 (Shane speaking..promotion?) November 7th - Briefing in Brussels (who attends?) November 8th - IDABC Pegsco meeting promotion (who attends?) November 12th - IGF Promotion? (who attends?) January 22nd - Full launch of all services
Website and application process dates and clarification needed ASAP. Map of people to contact for trial needed ASAP. Delegation of duties for October 22nd proposed launch needed ASAP.
In short, we won't be bored.
Regards
Shane
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I have continued to add to the time line. I believe we need to ensure that each task and goal is mapped with named people assigned with completion.
Bob said "Regarding CO website we need to decide how we want to project CO, style to be used and develop content to support the product database." He's right.
Marketing plan. Image. Branding. That's key. I believe it should be central to the September 28th call. Can someone make an agenda?
September 27th - GT and SC talk about PofO September 28th - Board teleconference (GG, GT, BB, SC) October 5th - Principles of Operation completed (GT, SC) October XX - Website completed (Rod? Date.) October XX - Application process completed (Rod, Bob? Date.) October 22nd - Formal launch of trial (?) October 31st - LinuxWorld NL (SC speaking..promotion?) November 3rd - elce2007 (SC speaking..promotion?) November 7th - Briefing in Brussels (who attends?) November 8th - IDABC Pegsco meeting promotion (who attends?) November 12th - IGF Promotion? (GG?) January 22nd - Full launch of all services
Website and application process dates and clarification needed ASAP. Map of people to contact for trial needed ASAP. Delegation of duties for October 22nd proposed launch needed ASAP.
Shane
Updated time-line:
October 3rd - Begin putting CO framework to FTF Technical list? (SC) [1] October 4th - Website and processes completed (Rob, BB) October 5th - Principles of Operation completed (GT, SC) October 5th - Board teleconference, Basil and Sachiko attending October 8th - First closed testing starts (?) [2] October XX - Formation of Governing Council [3] October 22nd - Formal launch of trial (?) October 31st - LinuxWorld NL (SC speaking..promotion?) November 3rd - elce2007 (SC speaking..promotion?) November 8th - IDABC Pegsco meeting promotion (who attends?) November 12th - IGF Promotion? (GG?) November 22nd - Press release (if acceptance and testing is OK) January 22nd - Full launch of all services
[1] Perhaps this should happen on the 8th of October. Comments?
[2] We need a list of people to invite.
[3] We need a list of people in this council.
Regards
Shane
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:19:41 +0200 Shane Martin Coughlan coughlan@fsfeurope.org wrote:
smc> November 12th - IGF Promotion? (GG?)
I may end up being a speaker on one of the main panels, but don't know whether it would be one that would fit well with CO. But there should be room to talk about it, and if I had handouts, I could make sure they are available.
Regards, Georg